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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 12, 2024 13:00:25 GMT
The idea of this poll is to take the BP winner of each year and reimagine them with the best director nominees of that year, and ask which director would make the best version of that film. If the BP winner was nominated in directing, that option will not be listed.
Everybody got support, but in the end Sheridan pulled ahead took Schindler by three votes
So our choices for Unforgiven are...
Robert Altman Martin Brest James Ivory Neil Jordan
Previous winners: 2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once 2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA 2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland 2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite 2018: Spike Lee's Green Book 2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water 2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight 2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight 2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman 2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave 2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo 2011: Woody Allen's The Artist 2010: Joel and Ethan Coen's The King's Speech 2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker 2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire 2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men 2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed 2005: Bennett Miller's Crash 2004: Martin Scorsese's Million Dollar Baby 2003: Peter Weir's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2002: Pedro Almodóvar's Chicago 2001: David Lynch's A Beautiful Mind 2000: Ang Lee's Gladiator 1999: Spike Jonze's American Beauty 1998: Steven Spielberg's Shakespeare in Love 1997: Curtis Hanson's Titanic 1996: Miloš Forman's The English Patient 1995: Chris Noonan's Braveheart 1994: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Forrest Gump 1993: Jim Sheridan's Schindler's List
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 12, 2024 13:01:46 GMT
I know he doesn't stand a chance, but I want to see the contemplative take on this that Ivory would bring to the table.
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Post by stephen on Jun 12, 2024 13:53:18 GMT
Neil Jordan's would be incredibly fascinating to me.
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Post by finniussnrub on Jun 12, 2024 20:55:39 GMT
Altman already made his western his way, so no reason to put him with Unforgiven.
Brest might not be a disaster, but would be a workman's version.
Again if Ivory's not doing an adaptation of a remarkable novel set around English gentry, he's not very good so not him.
Jordan might miss the mark, but his sensibilities seem the closest to what Unforgiven would need.
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